Multiple choice

Directions: In the following question, a sentence has been divided into four parts and marked 1, 2, 3 and 4. One of these parts contains a mistake in grammar idiom or syntax. Identify that part and mark it as the answer.

  1. Neither the Principal nor the Professors

  2. likes him, and so when he sought their help

  3. on being arrested for misbehaviour in a bus

  4. he found himself cold-shouldered
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B Correct answer
Explanation

(2) like him, and so when he sought their help. When conjunction “neither…nor” is used in the sentence, the verb is used according to the second subject. In this case the second subject “professors” is plural so a plural verb should be used.

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